“[It] hurt me but I had a whole life waiting for me and I’ll be damned if I was going to live it in the past. … I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit here and feel sorry for myself!” Carol S. Dweck, Mindset

“‘I think life is excruciatingly funny,’ he once said. ‘People travelling every day on the tube and doing things which are a means to an end but become ends in themselves, like buying cars to get about at weekends and spending every weekend cleaning them.’” The Theatre of the Absurd, Martin Esslin